On the trail

Labor kingmaker and numbers man Graham Richardson thought the debate between Premier Kristina Keneally and Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell in Sydney yesterday was a boringly bloodless affair. A late addition to a small crowd of onlookers in Martin Place, Richo said: “I don’t think any of us were any more enlightened than we were before it started”. KK was the better scrapper “because she has a go”, while BOF “tends to duck and weave and not throw too many punches and you can never win a fight doing that”, he said. Still, Richo said, “nothing...in the next few weeks will make a difference” to Labor’s bleak re-election prospects. Expect punches to be thrown when he debates former Liberal Premier Nick Greiner just days before the election at Norton Rose.